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Mark Urban

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Host C4N Fourcast Indicators pod, writing @Sunday Times, ex-BBC guy covering war & peace + sometime Newsnight presenter 1990-2024, IWM trustee, author Big Boys Rules, Generals, Rifles, Task Force Black, The Tank War, Skripal Files, Red Devils, Tank & more!

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National Centre for Social Research@natcen.bsky.social · yesterday

Excited for today’s launch event, chaired by Mark, exploring the latest BSA findings on defence t.co/klNHv0TIHM

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5jWYh2gURQ-NIPpM7jaq1g

t.co

Mark Urban@markurban.bsky.social · yesterday

Some essential research is just out on British public attitudes to global instability, the US and higher defence spending. Join our live webcast at 12.30 London time, today, Thursday, when all will be revealed! zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Mark Urban@markurban.bsky.social · yesterday

Some essential research is just out on British public attitudes to global instability, the US and higher defence spending. Join our live webcast at 12.30 London time, today, Thursday, when all will be revealed! zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: British Social Attitudes: Defence and Security. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Join us for this online event, where our expert speakers will discuss the findings and what they reveal about public opinion on defence in Britain today.

zoom.us

John C@badsocialism.bsky.social · 4w ago

Having worked the coal-face at the IWM I have to say this is a very fair defence of an institution I grew to like more across the short time I worked there - and it's hard to escape the fact that it is 1) a popular destination and 2) one that impresses almost every visitor who enters

Mark Urban@markurban.bsky.social · 4w ago

Being a great cultural institution, the Imperial War Museum gets its share of brickbats. Here's what I learned in eight years on the board markurban.substack.com/p/secrets-of...

Ian McClellan@ianmac.bsky.social · 4w ago

The BBC has announced it will be cutting a raft of Radio 4 programmes including the long-running consumer and social affairs show You and Yours. The social sciences show Thinking Allowed will also be cut along with arts and ideas programme Free Thinking… 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

bbc.co.uk

@johnrwilliams.bsky.social · last mo.

"Given all of this, rushing headlong towards greater dependence on space seems odd. Doesn’t national resilience demand the retention of as many reversionary or back up ways of operating as possible, if there is a growing danger of the orbiting infrastructure is in danger of being obliterated?"

Mark Urban@markurban.bsky.social · last mo.

Britain enters the space warfare business - just as its dependence on satellites has never been higher markurban.substack.com/p/britain-en...